A01=Fenton Johnson
Author_Fenton Johnson
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creative psychology
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eudora welty
gender
henry james
kentucky
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nina simone
paul cezanne
relationships
san francisco
sexuality
tagore
thoreau
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zora neale hurston
Product details
- ISBN 9780393541441
- Weight: 236g
- Dimensions: 142 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2021
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Fenton Johnson’s lyrical prose and searching sensibility explore what it means to choose solitude and to celebrate the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic solitaries he considers his kindred spirits, from Thoreau at Walden Pond and Emily Dickenson in Amherst, to the fiercely self-protective Zora Neale Hurston. The bright wakes these figures have left behind illuminate Fenton Johnson’s journey from his childhood in rural Kentucky to his solitary travels in America, France, and India. Woven into his musings about better-known solitaries are stories of friends and family he has lost and found along the way.”
Fenton Johnson is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. He teaches at Spalding University, contributes to Harper’s magazine, and has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He lives in San Francisco, California, and Tucson, Arizona.
